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Is your target really weight reduction? If you're not attempting to make a weight class for wrestling or some other game with
weight loss classes, you might think that your goal is weight reduction, but it truly isn't. You're trying to lose this flubbery
stuff attached to your body named FAT. Correct?

So , why can we measure our progress by how much we weigh? Why do we measure on the bathroom scale and hope that those amounts
will probably be lower than previously? You seeour weight is influenced by more than just how much fat is on our entire body. Some
other factors include water, muscle, glycogen, and obviously if we have eaten anything earlier or used the bathroom lately.

Our water weight fluctuates constantly. For example, when we exhale water vapor comes out. When we sweat, we're sweating water
out. Additionally, there are many more factors that can impact the amount of water in our body. Water is what usually causes those
random losses or gains of a pound or two in fat which could make you sad or happy. It is almost physiologically impossible to
eliminate a pound of fat in one day.

1 reason the low carb or no-carb (also known as ketogenic) diets are so appealing is because of the large first loss of weight.
But this weight isn't necessarily fat. When carbs are restricted that the body has a backup store of them located in the liver and
muscles in the shape of something known as glycogen. The human body can store approximately 400 grams of glycogen. In bigger
individuals this amount can increase. Along with this, for every gram of glycogen stored in the human body, 3 grams of water can
also be saved. If you figure it out, this would equate to approximately 1600 grams (3.5 pounds) of water and glycogen.

When you cease or limit your consumption of carbs, your body starts using its glycogen stores. Following a couple of days that
1600 g (3.5 pounds) of glycogen and water are gone. Additionally, as an adaptation to the restriction of carbohydrates, your body
produces these things called ketones. Ketones also appear to have a diuretic effect, which might mean an even greater loss of
water.

In addition to water, if you're working out recently to accelerate along your"weight loss" (you mean fat reduction, right?) This
gain in muscle may also affect the numbers you see on the scale. Muscle can be more dense than fat.

You may be wondering how you're going to measure your progress today that the scale doesn't mean as far as it used to. None of
these methods are 100% true, but they will be more useful than the use of a scale.

You can generally find these in your local sporting goods/fitness store. If you can not find them locally, you can purchase them
off the web. Calipers measure the thickness of a skin fold on your triceps. Then you will find directions that come with the
caliper that show you how you can use the amount you have to derive your own body fat %.